The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


ing citizen could make fortune tanning the
hides of the giant mosquitoes in the Fremont
bottoms and polishing their bills for umbrella
handles
\ sPoRTIvE BULL in Wayne, Neb., charged on
the town fire engine while the machine was
being tested. The boys turned the hose on the
bulls eye, and, after four successive charges,
the animal retired to the field thoroughly
cooled.
A NEGRO snake charmer in Little Rock was
picking up a few dimes on the street the other
day by swallowing snake for public amuse-
ment. The serpent grew weary Of the sport
and put an end to the show by biting the dar-
key severely on the cheek.
BEACH HAwLEY years old, and voracious
reader of cheap novels of the furious sort,
started from his home in Bridgeport, Conn., on
Tuesday for Africa. taking with him a loaded
| horse pistol, with which he began practicing
when he got as far as NewtOwn. An accidental
discharge of the weapon lodged a ball in his
head, causing what was regarded as mortal
| wound.
THE Los Angeles Express says, apropos of the
real estate craze, which eclipses everything else
| in Southern California, that III a religious meet
| ing the other day the minister, in referring to
the distribution of tracts and how they should
be placed before the world of sin asked: Now,
! what shall we do with these tractS!' Deacon
| Jones, who was half asleep, heard the remark
| and yelled: Cut EN- up into lots and place EN-
A CHURCH socIABLE and hugging bee at Elk
Creek, Neb., broke up in row recently.
| wthered remnant of man, aching for smack
| at a sweet l6 or thereabouts, blew in l5c and
| was blindfolded. The managers ran his wife
| against him and the squeeze he gave her made
| her back ache When the bandage was re-
| moved and he discovered the swindle he howled
| like wild man. smote manager on the jaw,
and choked the treasurer till he refunded
THE fifteen great American inventions of
| wide world adoption are; /, The cotton gin; >,
planning machine; 3, the grass mower and reap
err 4, the rotary printing press; 5, navigation by
| steam; e, the hotair engine; Z, the sewing ma
| chine; s, the Iniia rubber industry Q, the ma
| chine manufacture of hOrseshOes 10, the sand
| blast for carving; II, the gauge lathe; II, the
grain elevator; 10, artificial ice making on a
large scale; II, the electric magnet and its prac
teal application; Is, the telephone.
A JACKSON, Mich, man owns the highest
| kicking mule in the State. He measures twelve
feet from tip to tip. estimated, and has been
| known to split a board in the ceiling of his sta
bic at a height Of fifteen feet. His favorite
| amusement is to kick apples out of the trees IN
| the orchard, and he always hits the one h is
helps himself to that variety exclusively as long
| as the supply holes OFT. He frequently allows
his heels to go 50 high as to oveIbalance niHsef,
| but, like well regulated cat, he lands on his
| feet every time.
An Altoona newspaper publishes the interest
|
| Bell of CAMERON. has been apprenticed to
carpenter of that town along with three other
| duSky Africans. The youth is 16 years old and
| is said to be very intelligent, reading and writ
| ing fairly well and speaking English and Ger
| man The Altoona carpenter had sent out an
| artisan to CAMERON to Superintend tine erection
| of the government building and prison which he
had built in wood for the colony, and thus it
was that King Bell got the desire TO make a car
penter out of his son, who is bound for four
years. o..
ONE of the strangest steamboat aggregations
that ever piled the upper Mississippi passed
up by Lacrosse at 10 O'Clock Thursday forenoon.
1t was a combination of three government
steamboats-the Gen. Barnard, Louise and
| Stella-eighteen bargeS heavily loaded, and
dwelling house with all the modern appoint
ments except the front yard The question is,
among rivermen, how they can get the thing
through the narrow places where it requires
good work to pass a single steamer. When
asked whose house he had Capt. Durham re-
piled that it was President Cleveand's country
residence. The curiosity attracted a large
number Of people to the levee.
A PRETTY Nebraska widow. who had ensnared
the affections ofmany respectable farmers living
near Wyman, wes recently ordered to leave the
country by a band of regulators, under the
penalty of a coat of tar and feathers. Nothing
daunted by the threat, the widow bought
double-barrel shotgun and awaited develop
mentS When the regulators approached the
house to carry out the threat the sight of
loaded gun pointed from one of the windows
deferred them, and one of the number, in ad-
miratiOn of the wOman's pluck, advanced under
a flag of truce proposed marriage, and was
cepted on the spot Then parson was called
in, the marriage was celebrated, and the night
wound up with a round of festivities.
THE sisters of the convent at Sinsnanea
Mound Wis. have determined to sink an arte-
sian well. The mound is about $50 feet above
the level of the Mississippi river and it will
ha FOL
of 1000 feet before a flow of water is reached.
A little southwest of the mound there is an old
diGgings that was operated by a company from
New York many years ago, and while the mine
was being worked body of water was discov-
cred through an opening boat was let down
and men padded around in all directions, and in
the direction of the mound the water became
deeper The progress of the boat under the
mound was stopped by large shelving rock
running down into the water. This lake is about
100 feet from the surface. The company sue
ceeded in raising a good deal of mineral before
operations We're stopped by the water.
WITH reference to the conviction and SEN
tence to death of the Paris murderer, Pranzini,
a curious question has arisen concerning the
disposal of the fortune of his principal victim.
Nine. Regnault. who possesses property to the
amount of $4,000. had signed will bequeath-
ing the whole OF il to Marie Gremeret, the little
girl of her maid and her own gOddaughter
Now, if the murder Of the child preceded that
Of Nine. Regnault the will is thereby rendered
tives of the dead deIni-mOndaine. If. on the
other hand, the latter was killed before the little
girl, the nearest relatives of the child inherit
the whole of the estate. The only person who
could have thrown any light on the subject is
the murderer Pranzini, who however, abso-
lntely denies any knowledge of the crime and
who, moreover, since his conviction and sen
tence has lost all his civil rights and is incapaci-
tated from rendering any legal evidence.
THE mechanical department. of the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia are experimenting
with new smoke preventing device for locomo-
tives They use table CRATES with diagonal slots
or openings onehalf by three inches and thirty
four such openings In each CRATE The crate
next to the fire-bOX door is made stationary and
a back is cast upon il, which is slotted The
back dampar is kept shut and the front one
open When running. The air passes in over the
back dead CRATE and gets partly heated before
reaching the fire, the supply by that opening
being provided to make mp for the restricted
supply that passes through the contracted CRATE
openings The arrangement works well as a
smoke preventer and saves fuel, the narrow
openings in the crates preventing the waste of
coal that is usually caused by the fine coal fall.
ing into the ash-pan When the CRATES are
shaken, says the CoirjeI-JOurnai the drum.
ming sound that follows the shaking of CRATES
with wide openings is not heard.
r. c. CRAWFORD writes to the New York
WOrid' From day 10 day l am discovering in
teragtinc cllStomE of thp anCipnt tjr,as ,,-L i,l